June 231683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire. 1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany. 1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany. 1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal. 1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states. 1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted. 1865 - Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory. 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." 1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina. 1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration. 1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York. 1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA. 1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. 1934 - Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country. 1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established. 1938 - Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida. 1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War. 1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea. 1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. 1964 - Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor. 1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas. 1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation. 2003 - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer. 2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits. 2005 - Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2013 - In Arizona, aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a quarter mile tightrope walk over the Little Colorado River Gorge. 2015 - NASA's Mars Odyssey completed its 60,000th orbit around Mars. The spacecraft entered orbit on October 23, 2001. 2015 - Verizon announced it had completed its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL, Inc. 2017 - In Los Angeles, CA, the Wilshire Grand Center opened. It opened as the tallest building west of the Mississippi at 1,100 feet. |